Remember? "what ever you bind on earth, is bound in heaven".
"O you of little faith".

HELLO!!! This is 2009, or did some of you, forget that? Whenever men feel that they are loosing POWER AND CONTROL over women, they want to go back in history. Those days are G-0-N-E. I can speak from experience, having been taught by 'nuns in habits', for 8 years. I have never seen a larger group of unhappy women, in one place, in my life.

To john darrah: Where in the world did you get the idea that you have the right to 'put nuns in habits or take them out'. They can make that decision for themselves, thank you very much.

You don't have to be a priest to proclaim "the Good News."

Women were the first proclaimers of The Good News. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. They were the first to find the empty tomb after Jesus had risen. They are the ones that went and told the disciples.

When Jesus appeared in the upper room, although it is not mentioned in Scripture, there would have been women there also. Jesus told them, "Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." (Matthew 28:18-20)

We are baptized as infants, in the name of the Father, the Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit. When anointed with blessed oil (frankincense and myrrh), the priest tells us we are priests, prophets and kings. Priests of the laity, we can proclaim the Good News; prophets, some Christians have that gift; Kings, because we are all children of the most high God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

We grow up learning what all that means, then when we reach our teens, at Confirmation, we confirm all that was said to us at Baptism.

I am a "lay minister," proclaiming the Good News to the youths in Juvenile Hall. I had to be a member in good standing of a Catholic Church, get a security clearance, and take some days of instruction. I had already been in a class studying Scripture.

We hold a Catholic/Christian service reading the Sunday Scriptures and explaining them. Lead the youths in singing hymns, and prayer. Pray for their requests and give them a blessing.

As Catholics, we don't all have to be ordained, however, we are all called to "proclaim the Good News." Praise God!

In reference to the word "Church," it is not a building or a denomination. To me, Church is God's Christian people, those that accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, regardless of which denomination, or which building they go to for Church services. Some may have different teaching or rules, but as long as they follow God's Word--Scripture, they are His Church.

I also attended a Catholic school, but I don't remember being taught that the Catholic Church was the only way to salvation.

In reference to nuns not wearing habits, I don't have a problem with that. It's not what they wear that's important. It's what is in their heart and what they teach about our God.

The nuns did tell us that we were not to read the Bible, as we would not understand it. They were correct.

My father had a Bible, and he would read it daily. On Sunday evenings, after dinner, the table was cleared, and the family would sit around the table and Dad would read to us from Scripture and explain it to us.

It was years later that I got interested in reading the Bible, but had difficulty understanding it. It wasn't until I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour, and I received "the Baptism of The Holy Spirit," that I began to understand what God was saying to me through his word. From that time on, God began to lead me and work through me. Praise God!

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